There's nothing ad hominem about claiming Microsoft codes poorly, given the evidence of the last several decades. I've been developing applications professionally since it was Windows/286, and the sheer number of stupid bugs, mistakes, and obviously poor design decisions still never ceases to amaze me. Knowing what I know from previous traipsing through the Windows kernel, I'm surprised it fares as well as it does on battery tests.

I've become a huge fan of touch computing. I believe that most things we think of as "computers" will be de-facto tablets, either in our pocket, in our hands, possibly even mounted on our wrists or forearms. I can't wait for the iPad 5 this week (I'll be ordering three), and my Surface Pro 2 ...

Easy: because Microsoft is dumb as a post when it comes to coding. Take a look at Mark's Blog entry on how just right clicking to compress some files produces DOZENS of stupid file operations. Windows is a complete mess internally. It sucks. So don't be surprised when it burns power badly.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2007/08/07/1715181.aspx

I've become a huge fan of touch computing. I believe that most things we think of as "computers" will be de-facto tablets, either in our pocket, in our hands, possibly even mounted on our wrists or forearms. I can't wait for the iPad 5 this week (I'll be ordering three), and my Surface Pro 2 ...

Well, it appears that TRADOC is now well into the process of attempting to destroy the greatest armed force that the world has ever known. Training and Doctrine Command has launched “two major efforts in support of this full integration of women soldiers.” TRADOC has started a scientific review...

A comment to those who see nothing incompatible with homosexuality in the scout oath: it is sad that you don't, but it wasn't considered necessary at the time the oath was written because no one in his right mind would have considered homosexuality to pass for "morally straight". Homosexuality was considered a sexual perversity and a problem in medical circles until 1974 when the DSM IV changed its view purely on the basis of cultural pressure and not medical or scientific evidence.
The purpose of the BSA has always been to help young boys become good masculine men. Homosexuality could not be more at odds with that purpose. Almost every religious viewpoint there is considers it an abomination. From the secular evolutionist perspective there is literally nothing more undesirable than self-selecting yourself out of the Darwinian pool. And a veritable mountain of evidence from the social sciences demonstrates that it is anything but a healthy lifestyle.
The BSA must not cave to the soft tyranny of the homosexual movement. I encourage others to write and express this same idea in a variety of ways.

It's been a while since I've been able to post something here that wouldn't get me in possible trouble (Jimbo, I'm not) but tonite, after getting an email from my local Scouting's CEO, I had to vent. As an Eagle Scout, as a former Unit Commissioner, as someone who has volunteered countless h...

From ABC News: ...A U.S. official confirmed the service member killed in the raid was a member of SEAL Team Six, the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011... And some statements from the brass: From SecDef Panetta: The special operators who conducted this raid knew they were putt...

Defense mechanisms?! What does Obama have to defend against?! He gets nearly non-stop worshipful coverage from his campaign apologists (a.k.a. the mainstream press) as he moves from one "tough and hard-hitting" interview to the next on late night comedy shows. The bottom line is that he's a fool who needs to be voted out of office ASAP.

On this, words fail me... I hope they don't fail the Romney Campaign.... Stewart asked Obama whether the investigation would address communication problems that contributed to confusion about the circumstances of the attack in Benghazi. "Because I would say, even you would admit, it was not t...

You are so missing the obvious: the people giving the orders aren't serious men involved in serious business. They have no conception of anything you're talking about. To them it's perfectly reasonable for soldiers out in the field to worry about their RoE cards. This is why it's important to select presidents and leaders from the ranks of the competent, not the ranks of the community organizer brigade.

I mean, it seems to me like we might have just been talking abut this this week... Evidently, when you leave some ass-clown who you were in an active gunfight with during a combat operation to die the death he deserves, you can be charged with murder... Five Royal Marines have been charged with...

What you're suggesting (1) makes sense, (2) would make our military far more effective, and (3) considerably reduce our casualties. As near as I can tell, the Obama administration is hostile to all three of those goals.

If I had my way, this would be the 3rd article of impeachment, right next to the Benghazi story. In a world where the Legacy Media actually did their job, this would continue to be a news item for some time (and if a Republican was in the White House, you know it would), but a news item over at...

I find folks generally divide pretty cleanly into two bins: (1) those who let reality shape their ideology, and (2) those who expect reality to conform to their ideology. The latter, which has been dominating the increasingly PC cultural landscope, rightly lost this time around.

Maybe not, but anyone with 3 firing synapses and an understanding of 2nd grade playground dynamics knows that this was what was going to happen... Both volunteers in a study to see if women could become Marine ground combat leaders have dropped out of the rigorous Infantry Officer Course, with ...

I'm surprised to hear this from you because I've read your blog long enough to know you're a productivity focused guy. My day job provides me a nice machine (3+ GHz quad-core hyperthreaded CPU, 8 GB of RAM, and a 1 TB hard drive), but I'm very frequently pushing its limits.
And it's not that I'm playing Skyrim in the office. I'm often working on architectural diagrams and/or reverse engineering code in Enterprise Architect while I have two or three sessions of Visual Studio 2010 open, a couple of version control system apps (usually Perforce and Mercurial), always Microsoft OneNote, usually Microsoft Word, sometimes Excel/Access, and two or three virtual machines running various servers/clients for deploying/testing code and/or doing research into other things. And of course that says nothing about the memory/CPU hog that is Outlook 2010.
Sorry, but I max out my use of the system I have, and I'd love to have another 1 - 2 monitors and more RAM. I'd use that too. When I'm working at home I regularly have between three and five machines maxed out, depending upon what I'm doing.

MG Siegler writes: The PC is over. It will linger, but increasingly as a relic. I now dread using my computer. I want to use a tablet most of the time. And increasingly, I can. I want to use a smartphone all the rest of the time. And I do. The value in the desktop web is increasingly an ...

Haven't we heard that before? Paul Sperry over at the NY Post has an article that shows evidently, over at the Puzzle Palace, the solution to the "Green on Blue" Ad Hoc Unfriendly Bullet Exchange Program is not for us to double down on our Force Protection measures and examine how we are going t...

Gateway Pundit has the letters and the scoop. Go check it out - apparently, Al Sharpton read Obama's original letter at the funeral for Heavy D. Over at IBD, an editorial that focuses on the issue: ...'I don't take these folks too seriously," President Obama recently told the Virginian-Pilot...

I'll give the French their credit where it's due: they were the ones who stopped the Muslim expansion in 732 AD, the only ones. Europe should be thanking them for that today if it wasn't too busy bowing to Islamofascists instead.

Not usually something you would expect me to be saying, but this guy....Mon Dieu. He was the epitome of a special operator in occupied France during WWII. Cycling to Bordeaux to meet a contact who was to arrange his return to England, however, he ran into a roadblock, taken prisoner, and impriso...

ROFL! I'm sorry, but I'm laughing so hard right now I can barely breathe! You write like you think it matters one whit to SCOTUS whether their ruling makes any sense in the real world?! Seriously?! You're joking, right?!

TSO over at This Ain't Hell has written a post about those who steal valor and why the Supreme Court’s answer to the Stolen Valor Problem is not only unworkable, but unnecessarily puts folks in jeopardy of legal or physical disputes... It's worth your time to grab a cup of coffee and read.

Tomorrow, June 14, is Flag Day here in the United States, commemorating the adoption of the stars and stripes as our national flag, which happened 235 years ago on this day in 1777. Madison Rising, a cool and totally unique new band we've recently been turned onto is out there with this ...stirr...

That's completely insulting! There is no way the Germans would have known about an invasion if Obama had been president because there wouldn't have been an invasion, silly. Obama would have been "leading from behind", counting on the French to invade. Sheesh.

On the eve of the anniversary of D-Day, it isn’t difficult, given their record, to believe that if it was the Obama Administration in charge on that historic day, the Germans would have known all about it. In recent months, operations which we should frankly know nothing about, have been leaked ...

No, this story, followed by this story is not from the Onion or the Daily Update on Comedy Central... The USS Illinois, the first Navy submarine to be staffed by an all-female crew, received the support of the White House on Memorial Day. Please tell me that this is not the answer to the all m...

Sorry, Deebow, but they're not frat boys, and it wasn't mere beer and weed found inside but sensitive information. We citizens are right to expect better of those who serve in such high places. It's not a non-story at all. It's not the end of the world either, but at a bare minimum those fellows need their clearances yanked followed by reassignment.

Ummmm.... Is anyone else surprised that a bunch of super Type AA personalities that spend their days and nights carrying 70 pounds of equipment and riding around in armored vehicles looking for a reason to terminate with extreme prejudice anyone who thinks of harming the most powerful man in th...

The LA Times has published pictures of US troops posing with the dead body parts of insurgent bombers. I am required by the code of military common decency and professionalism to state that I am outraged by this. But I am not really. Of course it causes us further difficulties in our battle for ...

Setting aside the moral question of hiring prostitutes (you obviously don't have a problem with it, but I do), I think what does deserve scrutiny is how they completely blew their jobs by having the president's itinerary and other sensitive information in the rooms at the time. That makes them all security risks for any foreign government willing to employ a "sparrow school" to gain access to such data through women willing to do whatever it takes to get it. If there was no such potential for data compromise, then as far as I'm concerned it remains a moral question but at least not one of national security.

Ummmm.... Is anyone else surprised that a bunch of super Type AA personalities that spend their days and nights carrying 70 pounds of equipment and riding around in armored vehicles looking for a reason to terminate with extreme prejudice anyone who thinks of harming the most powerful man in th...

Your suggested strategy kinda sounds like what others called "more rubble, less trouble" from the outset. Made sense to me then. Makes sense to me now. So naturally that can't be something the Obama-fool will pursue.

I have been ruminating on this for awhile now and I have even chronicled in these very pages here that when the death cult of Political Correctness fires into the beaten zone where the spineless civilian politicians are firing back, we get a rancid stew of weak willed, mush mouth war-fighting th...

The part I find funniest is that if the military he reviles were truly the sort of dull-witted, cold-blooded killers he takes them to be, they'd surely have snuffed out his life a long time ago; yet ironically *he's* the jackass who advocates hurting innocents to make a political point. I think there's a point where irony goes beyond self-parody into the sea of pathetic.

Bill Ayers, domestic terrorist, enemy of the US, anti-capitalist (but doesn’t run from its benefits) and formerly of the Weather Underground, is just flat not happy that the nation, as a whole, has a tendency to show members of the military the respect they deserve. It’s evil, I tell you, evil …...

What do you expect? The only type of seal with which anybody in Hollywood has actual contact is the type that lounges on its back in the water and barks for fish. Kinda like entitlement-happy liberals, don't you think?

[This is how real Navy SEALs look...] McQ busts the chops of a guy who reads lines for a living and Froggy took on the HuffPo critics and it made me think. Hollywood usually portrays the military - especially the special operations forces - in a correct and honest manner, right? Why do they ...

And now that dear man is dead, his economic legacy claimed by a philandering perjurer, his legacy of freedom being pissed away by a narcissistic fool in today's white house. And all the prospective nominees to run against said fool this year are barely shadows of his shadow. How does America endure when so many will vote for feckless stupidity?

Those Islamophobic racists! Do they not realize that shouting "Allah is Great!" is code for "We are totally peaceful and will not even think of blowing you all up in the name of Allah"?! Man, what is America coming to...

I'm sure that in Heaven, Todd Beamer is proud of these passengers... Continental Flight from Portland Oregon is diverted from it's flight to Houston because of two men shouting "God is Great"...Watch this video from KHOU (Houston):